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A war of words: Modelling nationalist identities in the malvinas/falklands war

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    Identificador: imarina:6387257
    Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina6387257
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    Bellot A
    Resum:
    This paper offers a case study of a situation in which nationalist discourses and power structures combined to construct nationalist identities in the context of the Malvinas /Falklands war, fought in 1982 between the United Kingdom and Argentina over the sovereignty of a small group of islands in the South Atlantic. Nationalisms played a key role in this war, since the prestige of the nation and its territory had to be defended. The paper draws on Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault to study how governing institutions and power groups based their call to war on their own particular version of truth. The British and Argentine media highly supported this truth in different ways. They were a key mechanism in the promotion of nationalist identities during the war, triggering patriotic feelings and serving as a vehicle for political propaganda. There were only a few exceptions that challenged or subverted the official discourse.

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    Autor segons l'article: Bellot A
    Departament: Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys
    Autor/s de la URV: Bellot, Andrea Roxana
    Paraules clau: Ideology Malvinas/falklands war Nationalist identities The media War discourse
    Resum: This paper offers a case study of a situation in which nationalist discourses and power structures combined to construct nationalist identities in the context of the Malvinas /Falklands war, fought in 1982 between the United Kingdom and Argentina over the sovereignty of a small group of islands in the South Atlantic. Nationalisms played a key role in this war, since the prestige of the nation and its territory had to be defended. The paper draws on Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault to study how governing institutions and power groups based their call to war on their own particular version of truth. The British and Argentine media highly supported this truth in different ways. They were a key mechanism in the promotion of nationalist identities during the war, triggering patriotic feelings and serving as a vehicle for political propaganda. There were only a few exceptions that challenged or subverted the official discourse.
    Àrees temàtiques: Ciencias humanas Cultural studies Literature Literature and literary theory
    Accès a la llicència d'ús: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Adreça de correu electrònic de l'autor: andrearoxana.bellot@urv.cat
    ISSN: 20698658
    Identificador de l'autor: 0000-0002-0561-2132
    Data d'alta del registre: 2024-10-12
    Versió de l'article dipositat: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Referència a l'article segons font original: University Of Bucharest Review: Literary And Cultural Studies Series. 13 (2): 133-140
    Referència de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Bellot A (2011). A war of words: Modelling nationalist identities in the malvinas/falklands war. University Of Bucharest Review: Literary And Cultural Studies Series, 13(2), 133-140
    URL Document de llicència: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Entitat: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Any de publicació de la revista: 2011
    Tipus de publicació: Journal Publications

  • Paraules clau:

    Cultural Studies,Literature and Literary Theory
    Ideology
    Malvinas/falklands war
    Nationalist identities
    The media
    War discourse
    Ciencias humanas
    Cultural studies
    Literature
    Literature and literary theory
    20698658

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